Media specialist, Melissa Judy, has put together a recommended reading list for the month of May. This month we are highlighting International Drum Month. View her suggestions for all ages below.

Age: Birth-6

Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe

 

Ellie The Elephant Wants To Play The Drums by Annie Chernow Wahl and Monika Roe

(Illustrator)

 

Sing, Hum, Strum, and Drum: My First Book of Music by Rachelle Burk

 

Age: 5-11

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle and Rafael

López (Illustrator)

 

Drum City by Thea Guidone and Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)

 

Eagle Drums by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson

 

Age: 10-14

The Beat I Drum (Life of a Cactus series) by Dusti Bowling

 

I Am Drums by Mike Grosso

 

Drummer Boy at Bull Run by Gilbert Morris

 

Age: 13-18

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

 

Drummer Girl by Karen Bass

 

The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

 

Age: 18+

The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour

 

Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography by Phil Collins

 

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass and Breon Mitchell (Translator)